A few days ago reading up on good C++ coding techniques I came across Stroustrup's (creator of C++) page citing the coding rules used when working on the Joint Strike Fighter. Reading through the various rules used, this one caught my attention:
AV Rule 25 (MISRA Rule 127) The time handling functions of library <time.h> shall not be used.
I got to thinking if we had any decent alternatives (at least in C++). And yes there are alternatives and all of them looked equally bad to me. Looks like the F22 guys might have had the same problem finding and using a robust fault tolerant time library.
I wrote my first code many years before discovering Perl, but it was Perl that turned me into a programmer.
Me too. I took a Fortran class in college that had a not so exciting teacher and just couldn't stand it. I swore I would never be a programmer.
Once starting my professional carrear I had a few tasks I needed to accomplish and someone suggested trying Perl. In really the first few hours I was hooked. After seeing how you really could solve real world problems quickly with the language I learnt other languages and now have been a programmer professionally for about 10 years.
I would like to see colleges offer courses for programmers, business people and scientists in Perl. It only takes a few hours to get rolling and it has so many applications for solving little problems quickly in all these fields.
should be spent getting their apps to work on Linux and just abandon Vista. Would be a good attack against M$ and I would really like to use iTunes in Ubuntu.
I had been keeping an eye on vista coming out for when I was to buy a new laptop or server. The closer the date came the more I got a bad feeling about all the DRM nonsense. I hadn't had time to mess with Linux for a couple years and figured I would see what is available. I installed Ubuntu (then Kubuntu) and would have to say I am very glad I did. M$ is going down a path I just can't go down. So if anyone is still on the fence give Ubuntu a try. Some of the GUI apps do crash on me from time to time but I just restart them. This isn't so much the OS's fault though, since there is so much software available and some of it just isn't tested as well as it should be. The bigger power apps are real sound and KDevelop is just awesome.
Only drawbacks I have had are my digital voice recorder won't work with it. Unfortunately I now know which one I should have bought so that was mostly my fault.
This has everything to do with control of information and knowledge by the professor's and big business education and much less to do with Wikipedia. If the professor's think something is inaccurate on Wikipedia, they can fix it. Access to good sourceable information in regards to history is not as available as one would think. Professor's feel that they need to remain the gatekeepers of knowledge to keep they jobs secure.
Or increase the mass of Mars moon. This will start the inards of Mars churning again (like the Earth's inards are churning from the effects of our big moon), and free up gas and water thus creating the required atmosphere on Mars.
It shouldn't necessarily be about fairness but truth in advertising. These networks should not masquerade as "news" outlets. They are propaganda machines, selling machines, entertainment etc. not news. They should just have classifications of such so that people would know (even if they like it) that they are not actually watching news, but boxed propaganda made to get them to think a certain way, back a certain position or consume merchandise.
The only way people are going to get real "news" is through independantly funded, independant groups that are funded by individuals, a few sources I can think of that do quite well in this model and remain more independant than the others are PBS, NPR and in print the CS Monitor.
You generally can't just stick probes in the ocean and create industrial levels of hydrogen. You don't generally just stick probes into the earth and get industrial levels of clean gasoline either.
I have to wonder about the quality of your degree..., seriously. I don't.
What large software project doesn't already start with a huge number of the pieces being already written? Nearly all modern software is taking building blocks, tools, libraries that exist or are bought and then using them to get whatever task done.
The vast majority of work is done this way so a program concentrating on that type of work would not be as relevant. Very little work is done actually starting from scratch on anything.
Like others have pointed out the best way to learn these other areas is with OSS projects and you don't need to pay a college to teach you how to get involved with them. You can do them on your own time.
I recently travelled to one of these areas where $1000 a year aint so bad. Your correct in saying this should take into account how much $1000 a year get's you in each area. You are incorrect however in saying people around the world do it just fine.
Not having clean water, safe housing, basic nutritional needs and basic medical care are what is really the issue. Not their income in relation to ours in the U.S. Most of these places that don't have as high an income are the places that have issues in these basic needs. Big issues in these basic needs that make them NOT "just fine". It is not a matter of feeling one way or the other, the hardships these people go through in these situations are facts.
Now, if they are in a community that provides for their own food and shelter (I.e. living off the land) then that is fine for them. However if they have abandoned a society like that or are born into a society that has abanded that for one of say factory work to provide U.S. markets with cheap goods then like it or not we should be concerned about their well being because we are a part of the situation.
Being part of that situation and not having any concern and assuming no responsibility is why half of the worlds population now lives under goverments ruling in Marx's name. Because it is Marx who addressed this exact problem and said that the elite who don't know they are a part of the problem, is the problem. This obviously made a lot of sense to people being exploited this way who looked towards communism for some protection against such injustice.
So as an elite western consumer, work towards economic justice so people won't have to look for systems to protect themselves from you, like communism (which IMHO does even more harm to them).
I think finding life on moons of large planets (like Jupiter) is going to be more likely than finding life on planets. Already we can see in our own solar system a number of moons that it looks like have ice on the outside and many more that have ice and likely water on the inside from geothermic processes warming the ice into water.
The most common form of life in the universe will likely end up being one that survives well under water near thermal vents. These are much more shielded to the many harsh problems surface dwelling life is.
That would be my biggest complaint as well. Allow users to state they own it, and they don't want to be offered it. Even though they may want to rank it that they really liked it.
It also breaks the monopoly of students and professors having access to the information the large article databases have and charge for.
There is just as much nonsense or more in those article databases but the prof's think they are superior because they are their nonsense and other people have to pay to play with them.
The other 99% of the people out there don't have a clue what a scientific argument is. The two sides haven't even set down a foundation for their points of view. The discussion turns ugly so fast that the two sides aren't even arguing about the same thing.
It makes sense they would start with the one that is going to be the most profitable for them then work their way down.
Hopefully us bargain hunters (aka poor people) will get the scaled down 999-1200 version in 6-12 months.
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I've written a lot of Perl, C, C++ code for years. Most of my web programming has been with Perl and PHP. The organization I work for recently became more friendly to open source tools and software. We started standardizing on Apache Tomcat and use a ton of Java with that. I must admit I absolutely love it. Much of what I hated about Java when I looked at it years ago is much better now and a lot of really good design literature is out there on how to structure everything well. The good architecture and design always seemed to lack in the Perl and PHP web based solutions. Not the fault of either language but the programmers writing it. Anyway using Java and Tomcat to build solid web applications has been a blast and it is fairly easy to come up to speed on how they structure everything.
Mass production depends on simple operations performed by unskilled or semiskilled operators (and as little labor as possible per unit). The rovers each require hundreds of thousands of man hours by highly skilled workers performing complex tasks.
That is just false. The processor in your computer is more complex than those rovers and what's it cost to make that?
I am not saying we are going to get rovers for 1000 bux each but we certainly could cut their cost cut by 75% or more. Even if we couldn't and the price was still high I would still advocate sending many more rovers.
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I got to thinking if we had any decent alternatives (at least in C++). And yes there are alternatives and all of them looked equally bad to me. Looks like the F22 guys might have had the same problem finding and using a robust fault tolerant time library.
I wrote my first code many years before discovering Perl, but it was Perl that turned me into a programmer.
Me too. I took a Fortran class in college that had a not so exciting teacher and just couldn't stand it. I swore I would never be a programmer.
Once starting my professional carrear I had a few tasks I needed to accomplish and someone suggested trying Perl. In really the first few hours I was hooked. After seeing how you really could solve real world problems quickly with the language I learnt other languages and now have been a programmer professionally for about 10 years.
I would like to see colleges offer courses for programmers, business people and scientists in Perl. It only takes a few hours to get rolling and it has so many applications for solving little problems quickly in all these fields.
should be spent getting their apps to work on Linux and just abandon Vista. Would be a good attack against M$ and I would really like to use iTunes in Ubuntu.
I had been keeping an eye on vista coming out for when I was to buy a new laptop or server. The closer the date came the more I got a bad feeling about all the DRM nonsense. I hadn't had time to mess with Linux for a couple years and figured I would see what is available. I installed Ubuntu (then Kubuntu) and would have to say I am very glad I did. M$ is going down a path I just can't go down. So if anyone is still on the fence give Ubuntu a try. Some of the GUI apps do crash on me from time to time but I just restart them. This isn't so much the OS's fault though, since there is so much software available and some of it just isn't tested as well as it should be. The bigger power apps are real sound and KDevelop is just awesome.
Only drawbacks I have had are my digital voice recorder won't work with it. Unfortunately I now know which one I should have bought so that was mostly my fault.
It doesn't show the crockyness of religion, it shows the crock that is our culture today and the people that live in it.
This has everything to do with control of information and knowledge by the professor's and big business education and much less to do with Wikipedia. If the professor's think something is inaccurate on Wikipedia, they can fix it. Access to good sourceable information in regards to history is not as available as one would think. Professor's feel that they need to remain the gatekeepers of knowledge to keep they jobs secure.
Or increase the mass of Mars moon. This will start the inards of Mars churning again (like the Earth's inards are churning from the effects of our big moon), and free up gas and water thus creating the required atmosphere on Mars.
It shouldn't necessarily be about fairness but truth in advertising. These networks should not masquerade as "news" outlets. They are propaganda machines, selling machines, entertainment etc. not news. They should just have classifications of such so that people would know (even if they like it) that they are not actually watching news, but boxed propaganda made to get them to think a certain way, back a certain position or consume merchandise.
The only way people are going to get real "news" is through independantly funded, independant groups that are funded by individuals, a few sources I can think of that do quite well in this model and remain more independant than the others are PBS, NPR and in print the CS Monitor.
Mathew Brodrick will have a cameo as an old school hacker locked up in Gitmo who the new kid talks to for advice.
What large software project doesn't already start with a huge number of the pieces being already written? Nearly all modern software is taking building blocks, tools, libraries that exist or are bought and then using them to get whatever task done.
The vast majority of work is done this way so a program concentrating on that type of work would not be as relevant. Very little work is done actually starting from scratch on anything.
Like others have pointed out the best way to learn these other areas is with OSS projects and you don't need to pay a college to teach you how to get involved with them. You can do them on your own time.
I recently travelled to one of these areas where $1000 a year aint so bad. Your correct in saying this should take into account how much $1000 a year get's you in each area. You are incorrect however in saying people around the world do it just fine.
Not having clean water, safe housing, basic nutritional needs and basic medical care are what is really the issue. Not their income in relation to ours in the U.S. Most of these places that don't have as high an income are the places that have issues in these basic needs. Big issues in these basic needs that make them NOT "just fine". It is not a matter of feeling one way or the other, the hardships these people go through in these situations are facts.
Now, if they are in a community that provides for their own food and shelter (I.e. living off the land) then that is fine for them. However if they have abandoned a society like that or are born into a society that has abanded that for one of say factory work to provide U.S. markets with cheap goods then like it or not we should be concerned about their well being because we are a part of the situation.
Being part of that situation and not having any concern and assuming no responsibility is why half of the worlds population now lives under goverments ruling in Marx's name. Because it is Marx who addressed this exact problem and said that the elite who don't know they are a part of the problem, is the problem. This obviously made a lot of sense to people being exploited this way who looked towards communism for some protection against such injustice.
So as an elite western consumer, work towards economic justice so people won't have to look for systems to protect themselves from you, like communism (which IMHO does even more harm to them).
I hardly call this an answer:
Mickos: We plan to give our investors an exit. When or what that looks like remains to be seen.
When will you bring the company public?
I think finding life on moons of large planets (like Jupiter) is going to be more likely than finding life on planets. Already we can see in our own solar system a number of moons that it looks like have ice on the outside and many more that have ice and likely water on the inside from geothermic processes warming the ice into water.
The most common form of life in the universe will likely end up being one that survives well under water near thermal vents. These are much more shielded to the many harsh problems surface dwelling life is.
That would be my biggest complaint as well. Allow users to state they own it, and they don't want to be offered it. Even though they may want to rank it that they really liked it.
So, how do you create great software when the resources are limited?
You do it yourself. Making all the decisions yourself.
If they did employ the Scientific Method, they wouldn't be on TV. It would be too boring.
It also breaks the monopoly of students and professors having access to the information the large article databases have and charge for.
There is just as much nonsense or more in those article databases but the prof's think they are superior because they are their nonsense and other people have to pay to play with them.
I'll second that.
The editors are probably letting this story through so people who are actually "in the know" about leopard have an excuse to discuss it.
This craft will achieve 0.007% impulse speed.
Nope, I am with yah, that makes three of us. Former President Jimmy Carter is actually the third.
The other 99% of the people out there don't have a clue what a scientific argument is. The two sides haven't even set down a foundation for their points of view. The discussion turns ugly so fast that the two sides aren't even arguing about the same thing.
It makes sense they would start with the one that is going to be the most profitable for them then work their way down.
Hopefully us bargain hunters (aka poor people) will get the scaled down 999-1200 version in 6-12 months.
I've written a lot of Perl, C, C++ code for years. Most of my web programming has been with Perl and PHP. The organization I work for recently became more friendly to open source tools and software. We started standardizing on Apache Tomcat and use a ton of Java with that. I must admit I absolutely love it. Much of what I hated about Java when I looked at it years ago is much better now and a lot of really good design literature is out there on how to structure everything well. The good architecture and design always seemed to lack in the Perl and PHP web based solutions. Not the fault of either language but the programmers writing it. Anyway using Java and Tomcat to build solid web applications has been a blast and it is fairly easy to come up to speed on how they structure everything.
Mass production depends on simple operations performed by unskilled or semiskilled operators (and as little labor as possible per unit). The rovers each require hundreds of thousands of man hours by highly skilled workers performing complex tasks.
That is just false. The processor in your computer is more complex than those rovers and what's it cost to make that?
I am not saying we are going to get rovers for 1000 bux each but we certainly could cut their cost cut by 75% or more. Even if we couldn't and the price was still high I would still advocate sending many more rovers.